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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC..

ELIJ DANIEL MINER, OF DAYTON, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATIO1 \T forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,493, dated March 4, 1884.

Application filed November 518, 1883. (Model.)

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIJAH DANIEL MINER, of Dayton, inthe county of Columbia and Territory of Washington, have invented a new and Improved Post for Barbed-Vire Fence, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

A My invention consists in a post having a pointed and spirally-flanged base-point for driving into the ground, having a screwthreaded and shouldered upper end, which is also fitted with a driving-head, together With an upper section formed of gas-pipe or other tubing,which screws onto the top of the groundsection, and is about,half cut away longitudinally to form two bearing-edges, against which the wires are clamped by hook'headed bolts extending through a slot in the back of the post and securcd by huts, so that the wires may be shifted up or down along the post; Near the upper end the post has a permanent hook or lip, with which and a hook headed bolt a board maybe secured to the post, when desired, for making the fence conspicuous to the sight of animals, all being contrived to make a simple, substantial, and efficient post, as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming-part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

shoulder, and a driving-head, f, on the top,

which section I drive into the ground to the shoulder d, or thereabout, With a sledge for setting the post in the ground. For the upper section I take a piece of gas-tube, g, of

suitable length and size, and cut away about half of the same from a point, h, a little above the lower end to about thesame distance from the upper end, but formi'ng an undercut lip, i, at the upper end of the space cut away.v I make a slot, j, through the back of the remaining portion of the post, said slot being nearly as long as the open front portion of the post. In the lower end of the tube g, I make the requisito screwthreads to connect it with the ground-section a of the post by screwing it onto section e against the shoulder d, and in against which the wires maythus be firmly olamped in any position at which it may be desired to adjust them. y

When it may be desired to secure a board, o, along the top of the fence, to be more visible to animals, I will use a bolt, 10, having an L form of hook to secure the lower edge of the board, securing the upper edge of the board under the lip i, where it said bolt p.

The upper part of the post may be made of one-and-a-quarter-inch gas-pipe, or the next size larger, if preferred, which will afford ample strength, and will of course be very cheap, light, and'easy to transport, handle, and set up.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fence-post, the pointed, spirallyflanged, screW-threaded, and shouldered me: tallic ground-section a, in combination with an upper section, g, substantially as described.

2. In a fence-post, the 'pointed, spirallyflanged, screw threaded, shouldered, and headed metallic ground-section a, in combinais confined by the tion with an upper section, g, substantially.

ing-bolts m and nnts IL with the wiresl und the longitudnully seetioned and slotted upper tubular section, g, of a fence-post, substantiully as described.

The longitudiually sectioned and slotted tubular upper section, g, of a fence-post having the undercut lip 0', in combination with an L sha ped clmnping-bolt, p, and board o, substantally as described.

6. In a fence-post, the upper p0rtion of semi-tubular form in crossseetion, With e short closed tubular section at each end of said upper portion, and a longitudinal slot at theback of the semi-tubular portion, substun tially us described. 

